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Article in La Patria Unita, 15th January, 1956
 
This article was published on 15th January 1956 and is an account of an interview in Paris of Gershon Legman by Gianni Finlandia. The title reads: 'Folding Paper is an Art: The Hungarian doctor and psychoanalyst Gershon Legman brings for the first time to Europe the oriental secret entrusted to him by the Japanese master and philosopher Akira Yoshizawa'.

Gershon Legman was not in fact Hungarian, though his parents were both of Hungarian-Jewish descent, and he was neither a doctor nor a psychoanalyst. Equally Akira Yoshizawa was not a philosopher.

Near the beginning of the article Gershon Legman states that he was in Paris to arrange a paperfolding exhibition at the Musee de L'Homme at the Palais de Chaillot. As far as I know this exhibition never took place.

If anyone is able to offer me a transcription of the article, or an English translation, I will be most grateful for your help.

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